Pottery and porcelain of all times and nations : with tables of factory and artists' marks for the use of collectors (1878)
Prime, William Cowper, 1825-1905 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 76
tradition. Events which had actually occurredwere mingled with events the fiction of the imaginative Greek mind ofthe earlier days, rarely, if ever, equalled in old or modern times for powerof creation and poetic fervor. The explorations of our curious, inquiring,investigating age have furnished,… … to the possession of a free and flexible language as to the superiority ofGreek intellectual power — naturally resulted ina pride which is abundantly exemplified amongmodern nations. In nothing is this pride morefrequently illustrated than in the claim of in-ventions in the arts. No great invention…
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